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Viewbrics-project well received but not the winner
The Viewbrics project, a project supported by NWO (Dutch National Research Council)/NRO and coordinated by dr. Ellen Rusman of the Welten Institute, was one of the three nominees for the Best Educational Research and Practice Project Award 2017. At the EAPRIL conference in Finland the 1st prize did not go to Viewbrics, but to the STEM education project from Heidi Knipprath. Nevertheless the team looks back at the conference with satisfaction: the team felt very honoured to be nominated as one of the three best projects of 2017 and they received a lot of positive feedback from conference participants.

'Like master like man'

Viewbrics surveys the possibilities of using video modelling examples combined with rubrics for formative assessment of complex skills. To master complex generic skills, it is important to form a concrete and consistent mental model of  all constituent sub- skills and mastery levels of a skill. Viewbrics describes the different mastery levels for three generic complex skills: presenting, collaborating and information literacy. This is done in text-based rubrics enhanced with video modelling examples. This way students and teachers can compare  student skills with experts and mirror performances against this benchmark. These video rubrics and the technology-enhanced formative assessment methodology were developed and tested in close collaboration with secondary school teachers and pupils, researchers and various domain experts.

The Award

The project was one of three nominees for the yearly Best Research and Practice Project Award*, an award for practitioner researchers in the field of education, learning and instruction, and training and development, which exceptionally contribute to educational practice.

* This link is no longer available.

Download the project flyer or watch the video.

Viewbrics 'Like master, like man' from PenOW on Vimeo.